The Cleveland Monsters beat the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins 3-2 in overtime on Wednesday night at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza. With the win, the Monsters are now 20-22-6-4 and are currently in seventh place in the AHL’s North Division standings.
The Penguins recorded two goals in the opening frame from Kasper Bjorkqvist at 4:18 and Drew O’Connor on the man advantage at 16:50 sending the Monsters to the first intermission trailing 2-0. Cleveland’s special teams shined in the middle frame beginning with a power-play goal from Carson Meyer at 3:39 assisted by Jake Christiansen and Kevin Stenlund to get the Monsters on the board. Christiansen added a tally on the man advantage at 7:51 off feeds from Trey Fix-Wolansky and Meyer tying the game 2-2 after 40 minutes. After a scoreless third period, Dillon Simpson became the overtime hero with a marker at 2:26 off a helper from Cole Cassels securing Cleveland’s 3-2 comeback win.
Cleveland’s Jet Greaves made 32 saves for the victory while Wilkes-Barre’s Alex D’Orio made 24 saves in defeat.
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